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• ‘The pit’ in Newport may soon be sold as mop up from EB-5 scandal nears end

  30-01-2026 23:11 via vtdigger.org
  Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference on April 13, 2017. File photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDiggerThe federally-appointed person charged with overseeing properties at the center of an investor fraud scandal that rocked Vermont appears to be winding down his work after nearly a decade on the job. Michael Goldberg wrote in a recent court filing that he expected soon to sell off the last receivership property, a piece of l
  
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• Vermont House backs Gov. Phil Scott’s call for ‘pause’ of Trump’s immigration crackdown

  30-01-2026 19:42 via vtdigger.org
  Speaker of the House Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington,, addresses her colleagues on the first day of the second year of the legislative biennium at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, January 6, 2026.Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerMONTPELIER — The Vermont House passed a resolution Thursday backing a recent statement by Gov. Phil Scott that called for a “pause” of federal immigration enforcement operations after the killing of a second protestor in Minneapolis.The resolution w
  
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• ‘ICE Out’ national event leads to protests, small business closures across Vermont

  30-01-2026 19:24 via vtdigger.org
  Buch Spieler Records in Montpelier is closed Friday to protest federal immigration enforcement, on Jan. 29, 2026. Photo by Charlotte Oliver/VTDiggerA nationwide call to protest President Trump’s violent immigration crackdown led Vermonters to take to the streets and small business owners to close their doors across the state Friday. In Vermont, at least 15 small businesses announced that they would be closing for all or part of the day in response to the “ICE Out” movemen
  
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• Vermont man dies in Mississippi prison 

  30-01-2026 18:30 via vtdigger.org
  Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, run by CoreCivic. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDiggerA Bennington man incarcerated in Mississippi died Thursday after he was found unresponsive in his cell. Titus Peters, 42, has been imprisoned by the state of Vermont since 2017. In 2019, Peters was moved to Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Mississippi to continue serving his prison sentence for the crimes he committed  in Vermont, according to a statement from the Vermont Department of
  
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• Matt Wormser: Vermont needs real education reform, not more reports

  30-01-2026 13:03 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Matt Wormser, a member of the Shelburne selectboard.As a member of the Shelburne selectboard, one of the unfortunate benefits of my service is the continual reminder of tradeoffs, which acutely come into focus during budget season. This year, we are struggling to maintain services and limit our property tax increases to twice the rate of inflation — an unsustainable pace even in the best of times.This pales in comparison to the forecast for my colleagues on the
  
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• More extreme cold to hit Vermont, capping off week of below-zero temperatures

  30-01-2026 00:43 via vtdigger.org
  A truck leaves the town garage in Bolton with a fresh load of sand to treat local roads on Thursday, January 29, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerEmergency shelters and warming centers that have stayed open throughout a long week of cold temperatures are beginning to feel the strain as extreme lows are expected again Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service.“We’re tired, but we’re happy that we’re helping people,” said Roxanne Carelli, executiv
  
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• A ‘top priority in this building’: Senate health committee seeks to broaden access to primary care

  30-01-2026 00:38 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Ginny Lyons, D-Chittenden Southeast, speaks on the floor of the Senate at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerIt was 4:30 on a Friday afternoon when Dr. Anne Morris faced a problem that may sound all too familiar for many primary care providers. By Morris’s telling, a patient looked at her, teary-eyed, and asked, “Why does everything have to be so hard?”In this particular instance, Morris, who is a primary care physician
  
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• New immigration legal services expand into southern and central Vermont

  30-01-2026 00:10 via vtdigger.org
  Jill Martin Diaz, executive director of the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project in Burlington, Aug. 27, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerImmigrant communities in southern and central Vermont will have expanded access to legal services through a new partnership announced this week. The new program, the Immigration Community Lawyering Initiative, is a partnership between Vermont Legal Aid and Vermont Asylum Assistance Project. Through the initiative, Vermont Legal Aid is setting up a forma
  
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